What's more important, sales or profit? Profit is what generates your salary. You could actually make more profit with less sales. Less sales could actually be less work. The most important thing for a business is to make money. That's profit. Now some might say, I don't care so much about making a lot of money. I like the freedom of owning a business. Well that is probably true, but if you don't watch your profit, you might lose that freedom. It's always amazed me how most businesses, even very large ones, talk about how much their sales are. You hear comments like, that's a บꯠꯠ company. But what's a บꯠꯠ company if it has no profit. Now I do admit that 2% net profit of บꯠꯠ is a lot bigger than 2% of ũꯠꯠ but most likely the large one carries a lot more headaches too.

Far be it from me to dampen your enthusiasm, but you should give yourself every opportunity for success. That's what the planning part of the process of creating your business plan will do. By the time you have pressed your way through it, you will not merely have some neatly arranged document to keep on file, you will have a working tool that addresses the essential factors that influence your future.